Abelodon
Extinct family of mammals
Abelodon Temporal range: Early Cretaceous PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
---|---|
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Peramura |
Family: | †Peramuridae |
Genus: | †Abelodon Brunet et al., 1989 |
Type species | |
†Abelodon abeli Brunet et al., 1989 | |
Species | |
†Abelodon abeli Brunet et al., 1989 |
Abelodon is an extinct genus of peramurid mammal in the clade Zatheria, which lived during the Early Cretaceous.[1] It is known from a single tooth found in Cameroon's Koum Formation.[2]
Paleoecology
Abelodon lived alongside various archosaurs in the Koum Formation, such as ornithopod dinosaurs like Ouranosaurus, theropods like Spinosaurus, and crocodilians like Araripesuchus.[3]
References
- ^ BRUNET, M; COPPENS, Y.; SUDRE, J.; DEJAX, J.; FLYNN, L.; HEINTZ, E.; HELL, J.; JACOBS, L.; JEHENNE, Y.; MOUCHELIN, G.; PILBEAM, D. (1990). "Nouveaux mammifères du Crétacé inférieur du Cameroun, Afrique de l'Ouest". Nouveaux mammifères du Crétacé inférieur du Cameroun, Afrique de l'Ouest. 310 (8): 1139–1146. ISSN 0764-4450.
- ^ "Abelodon". Paleofile.com.
- ^ Congleton, J.D. (1990). "Vertebrate Paleontology of the Koum Basin, Northern Cameroon, and Archosaurian Paleobiogeography in the Early Cretaceous". Department of Geology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas.
- v
- t
- e
| |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
|
Other taxa | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
This article about a Cretaceous mammal is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e